All the Google Products That Google Itself Has Killed Dead | Gizmodo.
Pew: 6 Percent of American Adults Use Reddit | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the Internet,” has finally earned a place at the social network table.
The online community, which allows people to submit content and vote it up or down based on interest, is used by 6 percent of U.S. Internet users, according to the Pew Research Center.
via Pew: 6 Percent of American Adults Use Reddit | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.
For full discussion and charts see: 6% of Online Adults are reddit Users | Pew Internet
Readers around the world | Russia Beyond The Headlines
Readers around the world | Russia Beyond The Headlines
It would be interesting to see a comparison of genre popularity across the G20. Maybe I should ask my Russian friends if there is any meaning to the fact Russians love fantasy novels…spurred by Sputnik and utopian dreams??
You may also like: Russian science fiction and fantasy | Wikipedia and The Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko, which has been translated into English.
Thousands of rare, second-hand books destroyed by Calgary flood waters | Calgary | News | Calgary Sun
How Introverts and Extroverts Can Peacefully Coexist | LifeHacker
Great article furthering the introvert vs. extrovert commentary.
Ever since Carl Jung first started giving people their personality types, there’s been a divide between the introvert and extrovert camps. It’s possible to bridge that gap, though. Here’s how to coexist with different personality types.
via How Introverts and Extroverts Can Peacefully Coexist | LifeHacker.
See also: Susan Cain: The power of introverts | TED Talks and Quiet: The Power of Introverts – By Susan Cain.
LibraryReads Book Discovery Program Launches Fall 2013
Every day library staff share books they love with their users. Now, you can reach beyond the library walls to tell the rest of the country about the books you can’t wait to share.
LibraryReads – a new program, launching this fall [in the U.S.], harnesses the value of “library staff picks” into a single nation-wide discovery tool, a monthly list of ten newly released must-reads. via LibraryReads.
LibraryReads has launched a website, with areas for library staff, publishers, sample recommendation list and a comprehensive FAQ. Also sign up to join the program and receive the newsletter.
See the press release.
See also: LibraryReads Book Discovery Program To Launch | ALA Annual 2013 | Library Journal
For the First Time, You Can Actually Own the Digital Comics You Buy | Underwire | Wired.com
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — If you’ve ever bought a digital comic book, your experience probably went something like this: You opened up an app like ComiXology, paid around $1.99 to $3.99 — likely, the same price as a print issue — but never downloaded the file for the comic to your hard drive. That’s because you don’t really own it — you’ve simply licensed the right to look at it in someone else’s library.
It’s a digital sales model that has been adopted by every major U.S. comics publisher and was inspired by fears that piracy of digital copies could hurt not just digital but also print sales. It has also essentially prevented the comic book readership (or at least, the legal comic book readership) from truly owning any of the books they buy. At least until this morning, when comic book publisher Image Comics announced that it will now sell all of its digital comics as downloadable via its website for both desktop and mobile users, making it the first major U.S. publisher to offer DRM-free digital versions of comics.
See the full article: For the First Time, You Can Actually Own the Digital Comics You Buy | Underwire | Wired.com.
Why Genre Rules e-Books, and What the Big Publishers Are Doing About It | Wired
One of the biggest success stories in U.S. publishing in recent years has been the continued growth of digital book publishing. Last year, total revenue for e-book sales in the United States reached $3.04 billion, a 44.2% increase on 2011′s numbers and a figure all the more impressive when you realize that growth is additive to the print publishing industry. Even more surprising, publishers have focused much of their attention on genres like sci-fi, fantasy, mystery and romance fiction – markets that have traditionally lagged behind “literary fiction” in terms of sales.
See the full article: Why Genre Rules e-Books, and What the Big Publishers Are Doing About It | Wired
40 Great Apps for Mobile Reference and Outreach | American Libraries Magazine
The desire to learn about useful mobile apps is widespread among librarians, judging by the overflow crowd at Sunday’s Conversation Starter [ALA Conference 2013], billed to deliver “40 Great Apps for Mobile Reference and Outreach.”
via 40 Great Apps for Mobile Reference and Outreach | American Libraries Magazine.
The Millions | Save the Languages
Researchers at Comanche Nation College and Texas Tech University are creating a digital archive to reconstruct the Comanche language before its 25 remaining speakers die out. Meanwhile, researchers from Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences have recorded audio and video footage of twenty isolated Alaskans who speak a unique form of the Russian language. (Bonus: An Australian researcher recently uncovered a whole new Aboriginal dialect.) via The Millions | Save the Languages.
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